I’ve been wondering when we would hit peak hysteria. It seemed certain to be approaching. We are constantly on notice to be afraid. Nothing is normal anymore, everything is a crisis.
We have a climate emergency, a global pandemic and a crisis of democracy, all at the same time. We keep finding new terms to ramp up the anxiety factor. We no longer have weather, we have heat domes, atmospheric rivers and polar vortexes.
We face emergency lockdowns, border bans, growing debt and rising inflation. The Arctic is melting, the forests are burning. “Now is not the time to travel,” our (latest) health minister informs us piously.
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